Over to Candleford

{{Short description|1941 novel by Flora Thompson}}

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{{infobox book

| name = Over to Candleford

| author = Flora Thompson

| language = English

| country = England

| genre = Novel

| publisher = Oxford University Press{{Cite book |url=http://primocat.bl.uk/F?func=direct&local_base=ITEMV&doc_number=003622497&con_lng=eng |title=Over to Candleford |last=Thompson |first=Flora |year=1941}} British Library catalogue

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| image = File:Over to Candleford.jpg

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| caption = 1944 edition

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| release_date = 1941

| media_type = Print

| preceded_by = Lark Rise

| followed_by = Candleford Green

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Over to Candleford is a 1941 semi-autobiographical novel by the English author Flora Thompson.

In 1945 the book was republished as part of the trilogy Lark Rise to Candleford, comprising the novels Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941), and Candleford Green (1943).{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTbyAQAAQBAJ&q=lark+rise | title=Dreams of the Good Life | publisher=Allen Lane | last=Mabey |first=Richard | authorlink = Richard Mabey|year=2014 | isbn=978-1846142789 | chapter=Chapter 12}}

==Plot==

The novel follows the childhood of Laura Timmins in the small rural northern Oxfordshire hamlet of Lark Rise and the surrounding countryside. It is a study of her family and relatives in the nearby market town of Candleford (based chiefly on Buckingham).{{cite journal| last = Mabey| first = Richard| title = Diary of a country woman| journal = The Guardian| pages = Review 1–4| date = 13 December 2008| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/13/lark-rise-candleford-flora-thompson| accessdate = 15 January 2017 }}